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In June 2017, Brookhaven, Georgia unveiled a statue memorializing the Comfort Women of World War II. [314] On September 22, 2017, in an initiative led by the local Chinese-American community, San Francisco erected a privately funded San Francisco Comfort Women Memorial to the comfort women of World War II.
This is a list of people who were compelled into becoming prostitutes for the Japanese Imperial Army as "comfort women" during World War II. [1] Several decades after the end of the war, a number of former comfort women demanded formal apologies and a compensation from the Government of Japan, with varying levels of success. [2]
The San Francisco Comfort Women memorial is a monument dedicated to comfort women before and during World War II. It is built in remembrance of the girls and women that were sexually enslaved by the Imperial Japanese Army through deceit, coercion, and brutal force. [ 1 ]
Ruff-O'Herne was born in 1923 in Bandung in the Dutch East Indies, then a colony of the Dutch Empire.She grew up as a devout Catholic. [4] During the Japanese occupation of the Dutch East Indies, Ruff-O'Herne and thousands of Dutch women were forced into hard physical labor at a prisoner-of-war camp at a disused army barracks in Ambarawa, Indonesia. [5]
Comfort women were women and girls forced into sexual slavery by the Imperial Japanese Army before and during World War II. [ 73 ] [ 74 ] [ 75 ] The name "comfort women" is a translation of the Japanese euphemism ianfu (慰安婦) and the similar Korean term wianbu (위안부).
Yohei Kono. The Kono Statement refers to a statement released by Chief Cabinet Secretary Yōhei Kōno on August 4, 1993, after the conclusion of the government study that found that the Japanese Imperial Army had forced women, known as comfort women, to work in military-run brothels during World War II.
Women, called comfort women, were forced into sexual slavery by the Imperial Japanese Army before and during World War II. [47] In other words, the comfort women were a part of a systematic rape used by Japan, especially among the armed forces in the Second World War. [ 47 ]
The Comfort Women: Sexual Violence and Postcolonial Memory in Korea and Japan was written by Professor Chunghee Sarah Soh (소정희 蘇貞姫) of San Francisco State University. [1] [2] [3] The book delves deeper into the World War II comfort women issue.